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100
What court case upheld the constitutionality of state laws requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the doctrine of "separate but equal".
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
100
This amendment gave the federal government the power to collect income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment
100
A poem saying a rhetorical command to white men to colonize and rule other nations for the benefit of those people.
What is White Man's Burden
100
A process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by a legislature.
What is Referendum
100
When military muscle is used with a subtle touch to complement to compliment diplomatic policies it is called..
What is Big Stick Diplomacy
200
Used as a de-facto or implicit pre-condition of the exercise of the ability to vote. Most often required money...
What is Poll Tax
200
This amendment established that senators would be directly elected.
What is the 17th Amendment.
200
act of a nation to introduce its military forces into a controversy
What is Military Interventionism
200
Procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a direct vote before his or her term has ended.
What is Recall
200
Taft's to foreign policy to ensure the financial stability of a region while protecting and extending American commercial and financial interests there.
What is Dollar Diplomacy
300
Were used to keep people of color from voting. Most questions were ridiculous and unreaslitic.
What is the Literacy Test
300
Prohibition of alcohol making alcoholic drinks illegal
What is the 18th amendment
300
Gave the famous Cross of Gold speech
What is William Jennings Bryan
300
Means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote
What is Initiative Petition
300
Declared that the US can intervene in conflicts in Latin America between European and Latin American nations. It effectively kept out European powers from Latin America.
What is Roosevelt Corollary
400
Founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and led the Back-to-Africa Movement.
What is Marcus Garvey
400
Gave women the right to vote. It's also called women's suffrage.
What is the 19th Amendment
400
A country or providence that relies solely on the export of one product.
What is Banana Republic
400
Preliminary election in which a party's candidates for public office are nominated by direct vote of the people.
What is Direct Primary
400
Policy that was set in 1899 in foreign affairs allowing multiple Imperial powers access to China, with none of them in control of the country. It stated that the United States, and all European nations could trade with China.
What is Open Door Policy
500
An American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. Also, the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in the subject of history from Harvard University.
What is W.E.B Dubois
500
This amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment.
What is the 21st Amendment
500
Founded in order to campaign against imperialism
What is Anti-Imperialist League
500
An effort to cure many of the ills of American society that had developed during the great industrial growth in the late 19th century.
What is Progressive Movement
500
Also known as moral diplomacy. Associated with Woodrow Wilson's view in the early 1900's that the United States government should only aid countries in Latin America or other nations that supported the overall interest of the United States.
What is Missionary Diplomacy
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